Jaz and Porter. I haven't given up, it's just that there is only one way forward as I have patiently stated and explained.
Strikes won't work. All that does is give the Government the opportunity to paint GA operators as greedy silver tails. The GA industry lacks ANY ability to produce the required public relations spin necessary to give a strike some hope of success.
To put that another way, a strike has a 99% chance of backfiring.
To put that yet another way, you want to see Alan Jones destroy your industry on talk back radio?
Writing letters to your local member or the PM won't work. You will receive responses of support but nothing else. That is because the Politicians get their advice from CASA and no one else. I cannot stress this too much. The Politician CANNOT do anything for you without CASAs written advice. Nothing, Zilch, NADA!
The ONLY thing a Politician understands is their own prospect of re-election! The ONLY thing a Minister cares about is remaining a Minister! Unless you credibly threaten those personal interests you will get nothing! If you succeed in threatening those interests you will get everything faster than you could possibly believe! Look at what happened to Tony Abbott!!!!!
Get a group together and prepare to run negative campaigns against sitting members in marginal seats at the next election. Negative campaigns* are easier to run. What you are saying to the Government of the day is effectively: "we don't care who will run the country after the next elections, but we will do our damnedest to make sure it isn't YOU unless you support our industry!".
Simple really and it would result in CASA being cut up tomorrow.
* Negative campaigns don't need to be about aviation. GA doesn't need to craft a political platform either. It doesn't need candidates. It needs a simple formula: cut up CASA into regulator and enforcer, adopt NZ/FAA rules and rewrite the Act to make the fostering of the industry requirement and preclude CASA from achieving its objectives by preventing aviation!!! It needs a charter as simple as that - don't subscribe to it Mr. Politician and we will do our best to ensure you aren't re-elected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_campaigning!